When You’ve Got The Transition Blues
Even if you enjoy your job and love your home life, there is something difficult about returning to work after a vacation, or to school after summer — or just…
How Regret Can Change Your Life
I'd like to tell you about what might be the most important book published in my field this year (and it's only February!): Dan Pink’s The Power of Regret: How…
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Adults: It’s Time To Pay Attention To Your Own Lives
“Character — the ability to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.” — Joan Didion, UC Berkeley ’56. With inspiration from the acclaimed…
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The Psychology of Returning: Inner World, Meet Outer World
This isn’t your basic comeback, what we are trying to do. I’ve written about personal comebacks before. This is more than recovering from the depression of so much loss, the…
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Procrastination Doesn’t Have To Be Your Enemy
Hey guys, it’s midterm season. When I was in college and printing a finished paper (believe it, we used to print papers), you’d have found two things to be true…
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3 Ideas To Manage Uncertainty
This is an updated post for election season 2024. You can scroll down to read the original post below. I became a psychotherapist as a way to master the science…
Mind Your Worries With These Strategies
Have you ever felt that your worries were out of control, or at least out of proportion to their importance? Many of us go through stressful times with a lot…
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Reduce Anxiety and Depression By Working Real Problems
Did you ever think that identifying problem after problem could actually help you feel better about your life? All of us have felt overwhelmed by indecision from time to time. In…
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A Better To-Do List
The whole point of a To Do List is to get an item out of our minds and onto paper. It is essentially a promise to remember to do something.…
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Better Habits = Less Willpower Required
This New Year, don't rely on your own willpower to make changes to your life. Instead, use this simple formula to create habits that will free you from that moment…